Articulate
project
space
The
project
space
project
September
2011
‐
March
2012
The
project
space
project
aims
to
explore
the
idea
of
project
spaces
as
an
exhibition
practice
that
focuses
on
the
thinking
processes
that
go
on
in
art
making,
and
on
the
relationships
that
are
formed
between
artworks
and
the
places
in
which
they
are
made.
It
aims
to
do
this
is
by
inviting
eight
artists
to
each
work
in
Articulate
project
space
for
a
fortnight
between
now
and
early
2012,
and
to
each
open
the
space
to
the
public
on
the
last
weekend,
or
at
whatever
stage
suits
what
they
are
doing.
They
might
work
on
their
own
or
in
collaboration
with
others.
They
may
produce
finished
work
or
work
in
progress.
The
plan
is
for
someone
to
document
the
process
as
well
what
is
produced
at
the
end.
This
documentation
may
turn
out
to
be
as
much
an
artwork
as
its
subject.
Once
the
project
is
complete
in
a
few
months
time,
this
documentation
will
be
shown
in
the
international
Art
and
Documentation
festival
to
be
held
in
Lodz,
Poland
in
2012.
It
is
hoped
to
also
be
the
basis
of
a
forum
or
publication
that
discusses
both
project
space
practice
and
questions
surrounding
documentation
of
temporal
and
spatial
art
practices.
The
eight
artists
who
agreed
to
participate
in
the
project
space
project
are
Lesley
Giovanelli,
Alan
Schacher,
Terry
Hayes,
Kathryn
Ryan,
Stephen
Sullivan,
Joan
Grounds,
Chantal
Grech,
and
Adrian
Hall,
all
artists
who
are
either
based
in
Sydney
or
have
been
until
recently.
The
program
is
19
Sept
–
9
Oct
2011:
Lesley
Giovanelli:
Monochrome
10
–
23
Oct
2011:
Alan
Schacher:
OneDay
Collaborations
24
Oct
‐
6
Nov
2011:
Rats‐Tsars
(Harry
Barnett,
Ben
Denham,
Terry
Hayes
and
Robin
Hungerford)
I
believe
you
have
something
to
tell
me
7
Nov
‐
20
Nov
2011:
Kathryn
Ryan
Pieces
of
Practice
28
Nov
‐
11
Dec
2011:
Heidelberg:
Sophie
Piet
2
Jan
‐
15
2012:
Joan
Grounds:
title
later
16
‐
29
Jan
2012:
Chantal
Grech:
Points
of
departure
27
Feb
‐
11
March
2012:
Adrian
Hall:
Conjecture
As
A
Place.
The
project
space
project
program
is
curated
by
Sue
Callanan
and
Margaret
Roberts
for
Articulate
project
space.
Press
contacts
and
progress
reports
can
be
seen
on
http://articulate497.blogspot.com/
now
and
as
the
project
unfolds.
Articulate project space, 497 Parramatta Rd, Leichhardt. NSW. 2040. Australia (b/w Norton & Elswick Sts, opposite Cass Bros)
[email protected] http://articulate497.blogspot.com/.
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Lesley
Giovanelli
Monochrome
19
Sept
–
9
Oct
2011
There
are
three
different
projects
I
want
to
do
with
the
colour
and
materials
I
have
been
working
with
for
several
years.
The
first
is
to
have
a
lot
of
objects
arranged
according
to
some
principle
inherent
in
them.
The
second
is
to
have
a
lot
of
objects
that
were
similar,
for
instance,
a
forest
of
philosophers'
stones
or
a
sea
of
fluffy
rocky
cloudy
things,
and
the
third
is
to
just
have
all
the
material
as
raw
material
and
start
building
directly
in
the
space.
I
have
chosen
the
first,
for
no
other
good
reason
than
I
remembered
an
exhibition
I
had
seen
in
Madrid
called
Monochrome,
which
was
also
in
a
long
narrow
space,
and
it
was
an
arrangement
of
coloured
sculptures,
each
arranged
according
to
their
colours,
so
I
thought
that
is
an
interesting
project
to
try
and
do
in
this
long
narrow
space.
(Lesley
Giovanelli,
edited
conversation
4
October
2011)
Alan
Schacher
OneDay
Collaborations
10
‐23
October
2011
An
artist
with
a
practice
in
performance,
encompassing
dance,
theatre,
performance
art
and
also
installations
and
spatial
environments
addressing
architectural
experience,
Alan
has
put
out
a
call
for
collaborators
from
a
range
of
disciplines
to
respond
and
join
him
for
one
day
of
research
and
interaction
at
Articulate.
Projects
will
range
from
text,
sound,
photography,
dance,
video,
installation,
performance,
cooking,
sewing,
drawing,
being
on
the
street,
and
just
plain
talking.
They
could
entail
planning
a
future
project
that
might
eventuate
one
day.
Where
possible
there
will
be
a
visiting
time
towards
the
end
of
each
day.
This
may
not
be
a
viewing
or
showing,
but
rather
an
open
door.
Collaborators
include
:
John
Baylis,
Peter
Fraser,
John
Gillies,
Mayu
Kanamori,
Ruark
Lewis,
Katia
Molino,
Imogen
Ross,
Timothy
Rushton.A
few
spaces
are
still
available.
Please
contact
Alan
if
interested:
RatsTsars
(Harry
Barnett,
Ben
Denham,
Terry
Hayes
&
Robin
Hungerford)
I
believe
you
have
something
to
tell
me
24
Oct
‐
6
Nov
2011
The
interview
began
by
the
headmaster
playing
an
old,
useful
trick
that
he
used
nine
times
out
of
ten
on
such
occasions.
He
began
by
saying
nothing
at
first,
he
held
his
eyes
down,
while
his
nose
wrinkled
beneath
his
slipping
glasses
as
if
what
he
was
reading
on
the
desk
before
him
was
something
unfit
for
decent
people
to
see.
It
gave
the
boy
time
to
realise
where
he
was,
to
be
overcome
by
the
awkwardness
of
being
there,
and
today,
for
him
to
take
in
the
carefully
arranged
evidence
which
sat
like
stage‐props
in
the
room.
The
headmaster
usually
held
that
position
for
a
while,
judging
the
moment
to
begin
speaking.
After
nearly
twenty
seconds
he
looked
up
from
the
desk
and
removed
his
reading
glasses;
he
2
stared
piercingly
at
the
boy;
and
he
played
his
second
trick.
'I
believe
you
have
something
to
tell
me',
he
said.
It
rarely
failed.
Only
the
hardest
cases,
or
the
most
innocent,
could
resist
the
implication
that
he
knew
everything,
and
he
was
just
giving
them
a
chance
to
confess.
And
the
boy
was
no
exception.
'You
mean
about
the
rat
sir?'...
Kathryn
Ryan
Pieces
of
Practice
7
Nov
‐
20
Nov
2011
"It
is
an
odd
thing,
I
believe,
to
be
constantly
looking
down
at
the
ground,
always
searching
for
broken
and
discarded
things.
After
a
while,
it
must
surely
affect
the
brain.
For
nothing
is
really
itself
anymore.
There
are
pieces
of
this
and
pieces
of
that,
but
none
of
it
fits
together.
And
yet,
very
strangely,
at
the
limit
of
all
this
chaos,
everything
begins
to
fuse
again...As
an
object
hunter
you
must
rescue
things
before
they
reach
a
state
of
absolute
decay.
You
can
never
expect
to
find
something
whole—for
that
is
an
accident,
a
mistake
on
the
part
of
the
person
that
lost
it—but
neither
can
you
spend
your
time
looking
for
what
is
totally
used
up.
You
hover
somewhere
in
between,
on
the
lookout
for
things
that
still
retain
a
semblance
of
their
original
shape‐even
if
their
usefulness
is
gone." Paul
Auster
'In
the
Country
of
Last
Things'
Faber
and
Faber,
London
1989,
p.35‐36
Although
I
see
myself
as
an
object
hunter,
I've
always
been
interested
in
the
way
documentation
(and
the
writing
surrounding
art
practice)
can
become
another
means
of
creative
production
and
discovery.
The
opportunity
to
use
the
project
space
is
as
much
about
being
able
to
play
with
these
objects
I've
collected
and
to
'see
how
they
grow',
as
it
is
about
reflecting
on
the
process
of
making.
I
hope
to
use
both
photography
and
fictional
stories
as
documentation
of
my
time
spent
there.
http://piecesofpractice.blogspot.com/
Heidelberg
Sophie
Piet
28
Nov
‐
11
Dec
2011
The
Sophie
Piet
assignment
performs
a
deconstructive
analysis
that
documents
the
curvilinear
wave
formations
underlying
Mondrian's
classic
neoplastic
paintings,
while
linking
them
to
analogous
motional
structures
in
the
art
of
Sophie
Taeuber‐ Arp.
A
historical
collaboration
is
a
possibility.
Template
documents
exist
for
the
subsequent
creation
of
unknown
architecture,
art
and
graphic
design.
Joan
Grounds
2
‐15
Jan
2012
Like
John
Barbour,
I
am
for
a
republic
of
things.
I
am
also
for
a
republic
of
processes.
But
I
rarely
have
the
opportunity
to
fully
explore
either
in
public.
My
intent
is
to
try
to
enable
both
in
this
project.
As
I
understand
it,
I
am
given
the
freedom
to
make
an
attempt
at
sustaining
these
two
aspects
of
practice
in
some
form
of
a
continuum
of
improvisation.
Hopefully
I
will
have
the
private
courage
to
resist
publicly
locking
down
one
or
another
aspect
of
things
and/or
processes
for
the
duration
of
my
time
in
Articulate.
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Chantal
Grech
Points
of
departure
16
‐
29
Jan
2012
I
have,
up
to
date,
been
interested
in
mapping
the
relationship
between
the
image
and
text
in
the
form
of
fragments
where
the
images
are
read
and
the
words
form
pathways
in
relation
to
an
ongoing
theme,
which
is
the
search
for
‘home’.
At
this
point
‘home’
for
me
resides
not
in
a
physical
location
but
in
the
voice
of
others
and
in
their
texts
which
offer
an
ongoing
conversation.
Using
the
myth
of
Ariadne’s
thread
I
plan
to
extend
this
investigation
by
exploring
ways
in
which
the
physical
space
of
Articulate
can
intersect
with
words
or
objects
and
further
suggest
possibilities
for
the
nature
of
home.
Adrian
Hall
Conjecture
As
A
Place
27
Feb
‐
11
March
2012
As
a
peripatetic
creature,
it
seems
I
have
spent
as
much
time
in
the
space
between
places,
as
I
have
‘there’,
or
‘here’.
As
I
grow
older;
less
young,
similar
spaces,
unrelated
to
linear
time,
exist
as
distance
between
memories.
Physical
space
to
a
sculptor
has
always
been
redolent
of
a
myriad
of
other
sensations;
to
vision
and
to
hearing;
smell
to
vertigo;
the
sense
of
time
to
the
bodily
clock;
to
the
awareness
of
the
surrounding
locale.
Once,
I
existed
for
ten
eternal
days
in
Byzantine
Time.
Truly.
Sunset
started
each
day,
and
the
pace
of
unavoidable
pedestrian
travel
moderated
diurnal
intensity
and
extended
the
distance
between
places.
Each
past
and
future
destination
was
a
monument
of
Early
Medieval:
it
had
waited
a
little
longer
though
to
welcome
the
young
man
in
blue
jeans
and
desert
boots.
The
solitary
space
between
places
became
so
existential
during
those
ten
days,
each
became
first
a
month,
and
then
in
memory
a
year.
Scale:
which
is
the
relationship
of
sizes,
in
all
places
though,
is
a
mystery
of
the
complex
and
the
utterly
simply
subjective.
Everywhere.
So
one
thing
does
mediate
another.
And
each
attenuated
experience,
when
experienced,
feeds
the
anticipation
of
the
next
moment
while
allowing
restrained
savour
to
the
past.
It
just
all
gets
more
sensational.
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